Russia has lodged a strong protest with Lithuania's interim charge d'affaires, Jolanta Tubaitė, over plans to dismantle the graves of Soviet soldiers in the town of Vevis. The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the move as "barbaric" and part of a "malicious campaign" to desecrate Soviet military remains.
Russia summoned Lithuania's Charge d'Affaires to protest plans to dismantle a Soviet soldiers' burial site in Vievis, calling it a "barbaric" and "immoral" act continuing a "malicious campaign" against such sites.
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Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin laid a wreath at the Liberation Monument in Pyongyang during a working visit to North Korea, honoring Soviet soldiers who fought for Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945. He observed a minute of silence for fallen Soviet soldiers and officers. On April 26, Volodin will attend the opening of a Memorial Museum dedicated to Korean soldiers who participated in the liberation of the Kursk Region.
